1937 Vienna Price Control Posters

1937 Vienna Price Control Posters

These are two March 1939 posters from
Vienna. Nazi Gauleiter Bürckel had ordained price reductions
on many items in a
speech shortly before that accused Jews of commercial misdeeds.
The first poster
states: “Bürckel Says: The honest merchant is a servant
of the people! He who charges excessive prices is an enemy of the
people! Good products
— fixed prices. Higher sales — Less exploitation. No
hoarding or dumping prices. No borrowing — No worries. Clear
bills — Good friends.”
The second has
a direct anti-Semitic theme: “Down with the Jewish bargaining
spirit!”
These were printed in Das
Kleine Blatt, a Vienna newspaper.